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Starving monkey 'gangs' battle in Thailand as coronavirus keeps tourists away
livescience ^ | 03/15/20 | Brandon Specktor

Posted on 03/16/2020 8:23:23 PM PDT by hapnHal

Tourism is down in the ancient city of Lopburi, and the local monkeys are going ape. Rival gangs of macaques brawl in the streets of Thailand.

In one of the more unusual incidents being attributed to the new coronavirus outbreak, a turf war between dozens of street monkeys and temple monkeys broke out in Thailand's historic city of Lopburi on Thursday (March 12).

According to city residents, the furry fracas likely resulted from a sharp dip in tourism to the 800-year-old city — and thus a dip in free food offerings to thousands of local monkeys."It’s the summer so usually we see a lot of tourists, but now because of the outbreak there's so few that the markets are very quiet," Sasaluk Rattanachai, who posted a video of the brawl online, told Thai news site Khaosod English. "Not enough tourists come to leave food for the monkeys at [the temple].

Thousands of crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) live in Lopburi and the nearby Phra Prang Sam Yot temple complex, which dates to the 13th century. Both groups are used to being fed human food by the hundreds of tourists who visit the site every day.

The city even hosts an annual Monkey Buffet Festival, where visitors construct elaborate towers of fruits and vegetables for the temple monkeys to feast on.  

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


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KEYWORDS: begging; civilsociety; dependency; macaques; monkeys; panhandling
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To: hapnHal; All

Starving Thailand monkeys rioting in the streets...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBu-ewMRhkA


21 posted on 03/16/2020 8:52:08 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the Dem in Dementia.)
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To: Bommer

I don’t know about choreography and monkeys, but Inspector Closeau told the organ grinder he needed a license for the filthy little minkey. :)


22 posted on 03/16/2020 8:52:41 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: EagleUSA

ROFLOL!


23 posted on 03/16/2020 8:53:06 PM PDT by crz
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To: caww
They'd better watch out for those dining tables with the holes in the center, particularly if there are sets of chopsticks and a hammer and chisel nearby.

24 posted on 03/16/2020 9:03:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: hapnHal

I have personally been attacked by the Lopburi macaques. Ahole creatures


25 posted on 03/16/2020 9:11:48 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: 2banana

LOL


26 posted on 03/16/2020 9:12:01 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Bommer

ROFL!!!!


27 posted on 03/16/2020 9:12:40 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: dfwgator

lol


28 posted on 03/16/2020 9:13:17 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: SunkenCiv

ROFL!


29 posted on 03/16/2020 9:14:04 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: rightwingcrazy
"The obvious question: would people behave differently in the same circumstances?"

It's how war began.

30 posted on 03/16/2020 9:14:10 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: hapnHal

Should never started feeding them, they would’ve survived just fine as designed. Now they suffer. Too sad.


31 posted on 03/16/2020 9:18:40 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: hapnHal

First word of first sentence; Tourists


32 posted on 03/16/2020 9:27:36 PM PDT by Cold Heart (.)
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To: hapnHal

Send them to a Chinese “wet market”.


33 posted on 03/16/2020 9:31:53 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: hapnHal

Send them to a Chinese “wet market”.


34 posted on 03/16/2020 9:31:53 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: hapnHal

First locusts, now monkeys. Hey, hey!


35 posted on 03/16/2020 10:57:10 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: hapnHal

Any monoliths nearby? Could get very ugly.


36 posted on 03/16/2020 11:08:36 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: hapnHal

Call PETA


37 posted on 03/17/2020 4:32:43 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: hapnHal

Simians under Socialism!


38 posted on 03/17/2020 4:56:25 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: hapnHal

I’ve read that when speed, agility, teeth, and claws are factored into a contest, a 10 lb. monkey is an equal match for a 170 lb. man.


39 posted on 03/17/2020 5:02:25 AM PDT by Jumpmaster (U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
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To: Jumpmaster

At least no one has given a monkey a loaded AK 47 yet. Cheetah the chimp has one-up on the Thai local street monkeys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V3oT7BRiWo


40 posted on 03/17/2020 6:46:03 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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